To:THE ODESSA COMMITTEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.

To the Odessa Committee from Lenin

Written:Written March 25, 1905, in GenevaPublished:First published in 1925.

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      Moscow,Volume 34,

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Dearfriends,

Ishould like to say a few words to you about congress delegates. If you are
sending them from Russia, then my letter does not apply. But I heard that you
are thinking of giving a mandate to one of the people here. If this rumour is
true, then I would advise giving mandates tobothof your candidates
here, i.e., to Josephine and Danila—one with a vote and the other
with a
consultative voice (i.e., write a letter to the congress that the Odessa
Committeerequests the congressto let Josephine attend with aconsultativevoice, as a member of the Southern Bureau and a very useful
worker in a consultative capacity, or, for example, Danila, as having an
excellent knowledge of the local areas and having worked with remarkable energy
among the Odessa proletariat). You may rest assured that the congress will grant
such a request from the Committee. Please read this letter toallthe Committee
members and send me a
reply.[1]

P.S.Are you taking workers into the Committee? This is essential, absolutely
essential! Why don’t you put us in direct contact with workers? Not a
single worker writes toVperyod. This is a scandal. We need at all
costsdozensof worker correspondents. I would ask you to read this
part of the letter, too, not only to all Committee members, but also to all
Majority organisers and agitators.

Regardsto everyone!

Yours,Lenin

[1]Inreply to this letter, Lydia Knipovich, a member of the Odessa Committee
of the R.S.D.L.P., informed Lenin that the mandate to the congress
previously issued to V. V. Vorovsky in the name of the Odessa Committee was
being transferred to Lenin and that Vorovsky would receive his mandate from
the Nikolayev Committee.